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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179073 | Robotic devices with agent delivery components and related methods Various robotic devices and related medical procedures are disclosed herein. Each of the various robotic devices have an agent delivery component. The devices include mobile robotic devices and fixed base robotic devices as disclosed herein. The agent delivery compo... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8080964 | Neural network and method for estimating regions of motor operation from information characterizing the motor A method for collecting operational parameters of a motor may include controlling the energization of a phase winding of the motor to establish an operating point, monitoring operational parameters of the motor that characterize a relationship between the energizati... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8054027 | Robot operating range setting device A robot control unit (30) comprises: a setting means (40) for setting operating ranges of each shaft and a working tool of the robot (20); a storage means (33) for storing an inertial running distance of the robot decided by at least one ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8004228 | Robotic manipulator using rotary drives A two degree-of-freedom positioning and manipulating apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a first driven member rotatable about a first driven axis, a first driver member coupled to a first driven member for rotating the first driven member about the first ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7940023 | Geometric end effector system A geometric end effector system for use on a robot. The system includes a platform and a frame secured to the platform. At least one base is arranged at a predetermined position on the frame. The system also has an anchor mount secured to the base and a component co... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7898204 | High-speed substrate manipulator A mechanism for manipulation of a substrate over a substantially planar region has at least three, and up to six, degrees of freedom (DOF). The mechanism may be manufactured in various configurations, including triangular, and may use inherent symmetry to reduce the... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7863848 | Industrial robot system An industrial robot system including at least one industrial robot including at least one manipulator located in a robot cell, a control unit for controlling the manipulator, a portable operator control device for teaching and manually operating the manipulator, a d... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7847503 | Control apparatus and method for controlling a control subject A control apparatus includes: a memory storing data regarding an interference matrix; a position compensation calculator calculating position compensation by using the data based on a target position of an output shaft and a detected position of the output shaft; a ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7812560 | Rehabilitation robot and tutorial learning method therefor The present invention relates to a rehabilitation robot and a tutorial learning method for the rehabilitation robot. The rehabilitation robot comprises a robotic device, a rehabilitation mode control unit, and a driving unit. The robotic device comprises at least a ... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7795832 | Robot hand A robot hand equipped with a function of gently pinching an object may include a single degree of freedom joint for allowing bending or stretching at a connecting portion between a distal phalange section and a middle phalange section. The robot hand may further inc... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7759894 | Cogless motor driven active user interface haptic feedback system An aircraft user interface haptic feedback system includes a user interface, a position sensor, a cogless motor, and a control circuit. The user interface is movable to a position. The position sensor senses the position of the user interface and supplies a user int... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7746018 | Robot system and method for reposition and/or removal of base plates from cathode stripping machines in electrometallurgical processes At present, the reposition of base plates in an electrochemical process in the cathode stripping machine system is carried out manually, which implies a loss in the efficiency, high exposure to risk associated with the removal of plates and additional labor force be... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7741802 | Medical robotic system with programmably controlled constraints on error dynamics A medical robotic system has a robot arm holding an instrument for performing a medical procedure, and a control system for controlling movement of the arm and its instrument according to user manipulation of a master manipulator. The control system includes at leas... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7688017 | Multi-axis vacuum motor assembly In at least one aspect, a second multi-axis vacuum motor assembly is provided. The second multi-axis vacuum motor assembly includes (1) a first rotor; (2) a first stator adapted to commutate so as to rotate the first rotor across a vacuum barrier and control rotatio... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7688016 | Robust impedance-matching of manipulators interacting with unknown environments A system for replicating the behavior of a target robotic manipulator with respect to a payload and worksite, has a real-time simulator capturing the dynamics of the target robot manipulator; a mock-up of the payload and worksite; and an emulating robotic manipulato... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7675258 | Operator-control device for a machine A machine includes an operator seat and an armrest adjacent the operator seat. The machine may also include a control system, which may include a control handle extending at least partially upward from the armrest. The control system may also include a force feedbac... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7629763 | Actuator assembly including a single axis of rotation locking member An actuator assembly including an actuator housing assembly and a single axis of rotation locking member fixedly attached to a portion of the actuator housing assembly and an external mounting structure. The single axis of rotation locking member restricting rotatio... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7615956 | Robot A robot, wherein the operating amounts of the first and second actuators are adjusted according to a torque necessary for maintaining a body member and an end member at specified angles in a mechanism in which the body member (361) and the end member (363 | 11/10/2009 |
| 7609020 | Geometric end effector system A geometric end effector system for use on a robot. The system includes a platform and a frame secured to the platform. At least one base is arranged at a predetermined position on the frame. The system also has an anchor mount secured to the base and a component co... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7592768 | Robot joint structure and robot finger A robot joint structure α is composed of a metacarpal member 30 and a proximal member 40 swingably connected through a hinge 31 to a side end portion of the metacarpal member 30. The proximal member 40 includes a linear guide devi... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7564209 | Micro-manipulator A micro-manipulator has grippers for gripping micro-material; an actuator for driving the grippers; a drive amount detection device for detecting a drive amount of the actuator; a power control device for controlling power supplied to the actuator so that a differen... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7501778 | Robot control device A robot control device includes an operation mode change-over switch for switching between a first operation mode for prohibiting an operator from approaching a predetermined area around a robot when power is supplied to a drive motor for driving the robot and a sec... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7492115 | Legged mobile robot In a legged mobile robot (1), each leg (2) has at least a first joint (16) and a second joint (18, 20) located below the first joint in the gravitational direction, and the actuator that drives the second joint (54, 56) is located ... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7474072 | Case packing robot A case packing robot comprising a two dimensional articulated robot suspended from the top of a Cartesian gantry-type frame enclosure. All drive motors are fixed to the Cartesian gantry-type enclosure and all packing operations take place within the confines of the ... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7453227 | Medical robotic system with sliding mode control A medical robotic system has a joint coupled to medical device or a slave manipulator or robotic arm adapted to hold and/or move the medical device for performing a medical procedure, and a control system for controlling movement of the joint according to user manip... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7439699 | Animatronics systems and methods An animatronics system and method for incorporation in talking toys, puppets, animated special effects and costumes. The system utilizes a removable storage device such as a flash memory chip to store pre-programmed audio and animation data and a microcontroller con... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7433758 | Control apparatus of robot A robot control apparatus capable of largely reducing a calculation amount to be capable of lowering a load of a CPU is provided. A control apparatus of a robot includes: a plurality of shafts interfering with each other; each of the shafts including a motor (8 | 10/07/2008 |
| 7429843 | Method and system for multi-mode coverage for an autonomous robot A control system for a mobile robot (10) is provided to effectively cover a given area by operating in a plurality of modes, including an obstacle following mode (51) and a random bounce mode (49). In other embodiments, spot coverage, such as sp... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430457 | Robot teaching program editing apparatus based on voice input Candidate character strings representing objects disposed in a work cell, models for robot operation instructions which has variable parts, and robot commands related to the objects are defined in advance. By inputting a query such as ‘Workpiece 1 ?’ by voice, t... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7424341 | Robot system A robot system efficiently performing an operation of moving a robot to close to and/or separate from a target point, such as teaching operation. A camera of a visual sensor is mounted to the robot such that a distal end of an end effector is seen within the field o... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424342 | Transport system A computer in a transport system includes: a shooting part for shooting a first calibration tray by controlling a camera; a tray position computing part for computing a tray position of the first calibration tray within a captured image which the shooting part shot;... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7421314 | Method and device for controlling robot A method for controlling a robot during an interpolation of a trajectory or motion to any prescribed position, comprises the steps of a) ignoring at least one of the three originally prescribed or interpolated tool center point orientation values; b) finding new too... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7409267 | Predictive robot, control method for predictive robot, and predictive robotic system A predictive robot includes a prediction-related item storage to store terms related to prediction performance, a first communicator which transmits stored prediction-related terms and receives a search result of information search with regard to the prediction-rela... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7405531 | Torque-position transformer for task control of position controlled robots Torque control capability is provided to a position controlled robot by calculating joint position inputs from transformation of the desired joint torques. This is based on calculating the transfer function 1/E(s), which relates the desired joint torque to joint pos... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403835 | Device and method for programming an industrial robot In a device and method for programming an industrial robot using a simulation program, control commands are issued by a handheld programming device and these commands are visualized on an image surface as movement and/or processing operations by the robot on the bas... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7402974 | Device for detecting lift of autonomous mobile robot Disclosed herein is a device for detecting lift of an autonomous mobile robot. The device comprises at least one detection unit to detect lift of the main body of the robot during driving of the robot and to generate and output the lift detection signal, and a contr... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7397213 | Mobile robot and mobile robot charge station return system Disclosed are a mobile robot and a mobile robot charge station return system, the mobile robot having a simplified structure by commonly using a detection sensor capable of both receiving charge station guide signals and obstacle detection signals, the two types of ... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7388344 | Multichannel pulse train transmitting apparatus In the multi-shaft driving apparatus, position command pulse trains for servomotors are generated from a motor controller and supplied to motor drivers for the respective servomotors via a multichannel pulse train transmitting apparatus. The multichannel pulse train... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7383100 | Extensible task engine framework for humanoid robots An extensible task engine framework for humanoid robots. Robot instructions are stored as tasks and skills. Tasks are designed so that they can be executed by a variety of robots with differing configurations. A task can refer to zero or more skills. A skill can be ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7378812 | Legged robot and legged robot walking control method A legged robot and a legged robot walking control method are disclosed, which enable stable walking without force sensors on leg tips. A legged robot of the present invention comprises a torso, a leg link, which is swingably connected to the torso, storing means ... | 05/27/2008 |
